Vote for the deal or we leave with no deal – Johnson tells MPs

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THE DEBATE on the European Union Withdrawal Agreement Bill began yesterday with Tory PM Johnson confirming that if it is not voted through, the...

Striking ASLEF train drivers defiant!

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ASLEF train drivers start another programme of rolling one-day strikes today, which will run alongside their nine-day overtime ban which began yesterday, having now...
A section of the huge TUC march on October 20 through London against the Coalition’s attacks

NHS is not Tesco! – no to seven-day working

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The NHS Commissioning Board will announce compulsory seven-day working in the NHS when it publishes its ‘planning guidance’ for the NHS for the first...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers SURINDER DHARIWAL and SUKHWINDER MUNDY  outside the TGWU London regional office yesterday

MASSACRE! – Inquiry into 15 civilian deaths in Haditha

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The United States military is investigating whether US Marines who killed 15 civilians, including women and children, near the western Iraqi town of Haditha...

Bankers’ Man Hunt Imposes Tens Of Billions In Tax Rises & Savage Cuts

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CHANCELLOR HUNT yesterday announced tens of billions in tax rises and spending cuts in his Autumn Statement. Hunt acknowledged that the UK was in recession...
Junior doctors out in force on a demonstration three days before their last strike on February 10th – this time they are out for 48 hours

Junior doctors 48hr strike today

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‘OTHER trade unions should take action to support us and defend the NHS and I really hope we are all going to come together...

Israeli Forces Demolish Palestinian Homes

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ISRAELI forces yesterday made preparations for the punitive demolition of the family houses of three Palestinians suspected of carrying out a fatal attack outside...

GPs at Breaking Point!

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MILLIONS more appointments with hundreds fewer GPs is ‘pushing doctors to breaking point’, the BMA warned yesterday. Commenting on the latest NHS Digital GP workforce...
Hospital workers marching through Haringey on June 24 to keep the hospital open

Unions unite to defend the NHS

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‘I would support a Day of Action to defend the NHS. That’s what I’ll be recommending to my executive,’ GMB National Officer for Health,...

Grenfell residents give evidence to the Inquiry – ‘We were treated as sub citizens’...

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THE GRENFELL Tower fire Inquiry heard from the residents themselves yesterday including Lee Chapman the secretary of the leaseholders association who had repeatedly raised...
Young Socialists lobbying last year’s TUC  Conference in central London

Apprenticeships Rip-Off Exposed

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PRIVATE companies are being paid tens of millions of pounds of public money to train apprentices with no inspections or checks taking place and...
The front of the demonstration on March 16 against the sell-off of the Whittington hospital in north London

Health Act Opens Door To Privateers

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the Health and Social Care Act, which came into force yesterday, ‘is the privatisation of the National Health Service and must be defeated through...
A scene from the military-police civil war exercise in Kilkis, Greece

Greek Army Hold Civil War Exercise!

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THE Greek Army’s 71st airborne brigade, ‘Pontos’, carried out a large ‘civil war’ exercise code-named ‘Kallimachos’ on February 3rd and 4th at a specially...

Youth are marching against capitalism!

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OVER 10,000 school youth from around the South East of England descended on London’s Parliament Square yesterday shouting: ‘Solution not pollution! We want change!’...

Students unite with staff in pension battle

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THE NATIONAL Union of Students (NUS) stands ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the University and College Union (UCU) in the fight for fair pay and...
Grenfell Tower residents and supporters marching on Downing Street demanding action against those responsible

Tories Close Down Council Meeting!

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A KENSINGTON and Chelsea council meeting on Thursday evening erupted into anger as Tory council leader Nick Paget-Brown shut the meeting down five minutes...

£9,250 tuition fees at Exeter – rise for current & future students

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EXETER University has been condemned both by its students’ guild and lecturers’ union after announcing yesterday that tuition fees are to increase to £9,250...
Saturday’s demonstration in London which demanded all attacks on Syria must halt immediately

British crisis frightens Obama

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US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday that, despite deciding as ‘Commander-in-Chief’ to take military action against Syria, he will seek congressional support for...
Queue outside the Northern Rock bank in Harruw on Tuesday of savers determined to take out their money

NORTHERN ROCK CRASHES – as gold reaches $726 an ounce and oil $82 a...

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SHARES in Northern Rock slumped yesterday leaving the Brown government contemplating the £28 billion guarantee it has given to secure its deposits. Financial markets around...

Heba Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed of Palestine Action remain on hunger strike

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HEBA Muraisi and Kamran Ahmed, activists linked to Palestine Action, remain on hunger strike in prison and say they will continue until their demands...

Iran warns UK over ‘terror designations’

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THE UK is using ‘terror designations’ as a tool to criminalise grassroot support for Palestine,’ Iran has warned. Iran was reacting to Tory Home Secretary...

US CIVIL WAR! – Trump vows to send federal officers into NY, Chicago and...

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US PRESIDENT Trump announced yesterday that he is sending ‘a surge of federal security forces to US cities in a crackdown on crime’. Chicago, New...

Fresh Round Of College Strikes Begins

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THE FIRST day of a five-day strike yesterday marked an escalation in the college lecturers’ struggle with eleven colleges out on strike. At the College...

P&O SACKS 800! – RMT instructs crews to stay on board and refuse to...

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P&O FERRIES has fired 800 seafaring staff with immediate effect. However, crews defied orders and refused to leave their ships, as their union the...
Teachers picket outside the Crest Boys Academy in Neasden yesterday morning

E-Act breaks no-redundancy pledge to education unions

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A STRIKE by all three teacher unions, the ATL, NASUWT and NUT, took place yesterday at Crest Boys’ Academy in Neasden and the school...
‘Hands off our Horton’ demand demonstrators from North Oxfordshire in Trafalgar Square, London on October 10th

NHS Alarm Bells Ringing!

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THE NORTH Central London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) has been unveiled, only the second in the country to do so, and it has...

ISRAELI INVASION THREAT – Lebanese army will fight alongside Hezbollah says Defence Minister

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Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr yesterday pledged that the Lebanese army will stand and fight against an Israeli invasion. Murr warned: ‘The Lebanese army...
Firefighters on the October 20 TUC march against cuts – more cuts are expected to be announced today

Osborne to make more cuts today!

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Chancellor Osborne will step up the Coalition’s attacks on public spending in his Autumn Statement today, while handing over another huge tranche of taxpayers...

Jordan warns of Summer War!

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Jordan’s King Abdullah II has warned of the danger of a ‘summer war’ in the Middle East, should an upcoming Arab summit on the...
Demonstration last June demanding the release of Binyam Mohamed from Guantanamo Bay prison

THERE MUST BE NO COVER-UP – Binyam police probe must go right to top

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Police are to investigate whether an MI5 officer was complicit in the torture of ex-Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed, it was announced yesterday. The Attorney General,...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers picketing the Hillingdon office of the TGWU urging all workers not to sign the notorious ‘Compromise Agreement’

Teachers Strike!

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TEACHERS in four schools in Calderdale, Greenwich, Newham and Doncaster will take strike action this week to protect salary levels following a review forced...
Father Christmas visits yesterday morning’s ‘Keep Chase Farm Hospital Open’ picket called by the North East London Council of Action

‘We will do everything to keep our hospital open!’

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CARS hooted and people waved to Santa Claus on the Chase Farm Christmas picket, organised by the North-East London Council of Action yesterday. There was...

Low interest rates spark new global economic crisis

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LOW interests rates ‘risk sparking a new crisis’ across Europe, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) warned in its annual report released yesterday. The BIS...
Gate Gourmet locked-out workers lobbying the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton earlier this month. TGWU officials kept them out of the Congress – after they were given a hero’s welcome at the same conference a year earlier, shortly after the start o

TGWU LEADERS TO PAY ‘HUSH MONEY’ – while locked-out GG workers get no...

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IT was revealed yesterday by the Guardian newspaper that it has seen a TGWU agreement which shows that the two BA shop stewards, who...

Blair & Straw ‘must have known’ about Aamer torture – claims SNP’s Alex Salmond

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EX-LABOUR Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and ex-Labour Foreign Secretary Jack Straw ‘must have known’ about the torture of British prisoner Shaker Aamer by the...

LABOUR’S COLLUSION WITH TORTURE CONDEMNED –as Johnson, Miliband and MI5 chief launch witch-hunt!

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Legal charity Reprieve and rights group Amnesty, yesterday hit back at attacks by MI5 and the government on the Appeal Court judgement that revealed...

FORD PLANNING CLOSURES – in Belgium, Germany and the UK

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FORD is planning to close its plant in Southampton which makes the Transit van and employs 500 workers. A meeting between Ford’s management and unions...
Junior doctors demanding training posts and calling for the defence of the NHS; many are very angry at the BMA for not defending them

BMA BOOSTS BROWN’S PLAN FOR ‘INDEPENDENT’ NHS – before BMA conference even discusses it

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THE BMA yesterday, on the eve of its Annual Representative Meeting in Torquay, sought to impose Gordon Brown’s plan for an ‘independent board to...

Israel – 5 massacres in 24 hours

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ISRAELI occupation forces committed five massacres against families in the Gaza Strip over the last 24 hours, resulting in the documented killing of at...

Hamas Rejects Presence Of Any Israeli Forces In The Gaza Strip Area!

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SENIOR Hamas official Osama Hamdan has welcomed the general ceasefire plan proposed by US president Joe Biden, saying it contained ‘positive ideas’. Hamdan reiterated his...
US troops humiliate a prisoner in Iraq

LONDON ALERT! – Police ordered to shoot to kill

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Yesterday, London was living off its nerves after reports of four explosions, three at underground stations and one on a bus. Police were given orders...

North Kensington Workers Fighting Racism!

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FRIENDS and family, concerned members of the North Kensington community and local campaigners joined forces on Saturday evening to demand justice for El, a...

RMT Pickets Call For A General Strike To Win Their Pay Dispute!

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RMT pickets yesterday morning called for a general strike to win their dispute by bringing down the government. Wale Agunbiade, RMT Branch Secretary at Liverpool...

More than 60,000 junior doctors taking strike action!

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AS MORE than 60,000 junior doctors begin three days of strike action at 7am this morning, the British Medical Association (BMA) warns that two-thirds...
TUC march to defend the Welfare State in April last year

BENEFITS BLITZ! – Tory coalition to make 33% cuts

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Campaigners have slammed government plans to proceed with moving people off incapacity benefit and onto the dole. The government plans to move all incapacity benefit...